Preschool Lesson Plans
(scroll down for Art Plans)
| PE Central | This is "the premier Website for health and physical educators." Lesson plans, articles and equipment are specifically listed for preschool. |
| Everything Preschool | Book reviews, coloring pages, themes, and lesson plans are just a few things you will find on this resourceful site. |
| First School | First-School features free fun preschool lesson plans, educational early childhood activities, printable crafts, worksheets, calendar of events and other resources for children of preschool age. The preschool crafts, lesson plans and activities are appropriate and adaptable for toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarten level (ages 2 to 6). |
| Preschool Rainbow | Preschool education activities and early childhood education lesson plans that give preschool children choices. Ideas for pre-k and kindergarten teachers that enrich classroom curriculum are arranged by theme. Plus easy at home fun learning games. There's even a search function and an opportunity to submit your own ideas. |
| Learning Page | Learning Page provides a huge collection of professionally produced instructional materials you can download and print. Lesson plans, books, worksheets, and much more can be found on the site. Start by checking out our free samples. Have fun! |
| Gigglepotz | Looking for Ideas, Games or Craft ideas for Pre-Schoolers? Do you need ideas for creative learning activities, suitable for Pre-Schoolers? Gigglepotz provides you with a variety of fun and educational themes to use with the Pre-school Child. |
| Perpetual Preschool | Includes holiday, seasonal themes, theme resources, and learning center ideas. |
| Preschool Education | This site covers a wide rance of topics from circle time and computers to parent corner and music review and everything in between! |
| Early Childhood | The Professional Resource For Teachers And Parents. |
| DLTK's Crafts for Kids | DLTK's Crafts for Kids features a variety of fun, printable children's crafts, coloring pages and more including projects for holidays, educational themes and some favorite cartoon characters. |
| Home Schooling Adventures | This site contains an index that offers links to preschool, as well as specific subjects. |
| Hummingbird Educational Resources | Geared toward early childhood and kindergarten teachers, this site contains lesson plans on curriculum areas as well as themes, interactive big books catalog, and other resources on the web. |
| A to Z Teacher Stuff | A to Z Teacher Stuff is teacher-created, and designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. They offer lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, teacher discussion forums, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more. |
| The Activity Place | The Activity Place contains lots of information on plans for early childhood. |
| Child Fun | Child fun has lots of activity links for current holidays. |
Art Lesson Plans
- adapted from Gail Junion-Metz's Art Smarts in School Library Journal February 2005, page 30.
| PBS Arts & Literature | Lessons are designed using PBS shows for a guide regarding content. Some plans are in printable form, and most are linked to other useful Web sites. Lessons for early childhood include crafts as well as visual arts. |
| Crayola | Lessons include many different mediums as themes. You must register to access plans, but it is free. |
| Arts Edge- Kennedy Center | Created by the National Endowment for the Humanities and MarcoPolo. Contains an internal search engine. |
| J. PaulGetty Museum | ArtsEdNet sponsors this site. |
| Princeton Online | Most lessons are linked to related Web sites they make connections to books. |
| Kinder Art | Contains plans for early childhood through grade 8, including art projects that do not require a large budget. Includes lesson topics of sculpture, textiles, architecture, and folk art. |
| Education World | Contains lessons in art history, dance & music, visual arts, and language arts. |